[Coco] The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 303, March 4, 2023

[Rich Carreiro]

A solid "A".  I really enjoy these and look forward to them.

On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 10:12 PM Robert "Exile In Paradise" Murphey via
Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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> The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 303, March 4, 2023
> ===============================================================
> Collected by L. Curtis Boyle
>
> Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
> -------------------------------
> 1) TRS-80 Retro Programming posted the second part of his Base 10 to Base 5,
> based on comments and source supplied by a viewer that was done for Commodore
> BASIC:
>   https://youtu.be/fT9da7lBSfA
> He also posted an update to his much faster version of Tales of Suburbia, which
> also includes improved graphics:
>   https://youtu.be/s3I0RFVaOFI
> And a further updated on Tales of Suburbia:
>   https://youtu.be/uUf9kQCMswQ
>
> 2) John Zizolfo Has released more templates this week that you can download and
> print out - this time for the blank page templates for Tandy's "Electronic
> Book" hardware:
>   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160501627497641/
>
> 3) The Home Computer Museum (in the Netherlands, that we have mention before)
> got a **huge** "barn find" of old computers - which even included some Coco's:
> (Play the intro, which explains what happened, and then faster forward to
> around 9:!5 to see some of the Coco stuff (TRS-80 and Apples are before it):
>   https://youtu.be/f8TiqdUZLXo
>
> 4) Coco Crew episode 93 is out, and includes a discussion on "is retro still
> cool" (that's a silly question, given our respective audiences!) and Neil does
> a review Carl England's Backup Magic:
>   http://cococrew.org
>
> 5) Hot on the heels of the announcement that Darren Atkinson has released the
> files to make the MCX-32SD expansion for the MC-10 - Frank at retrorewind.ca is
> expecting to offer them for sale starting this upcoming week! Price should be
> the same that it has been in the past.
>   retrorewind.ca
>
> 6) Tony Vincent posted a link in the Dragon group on Facebook to a place to get
> a "Dial-A-ROM" - this allows a large ROM with multiple images to plug into an
> existing ROM socket. While we have seen this before with dip switches to select
> different ROM images within the large "master" ROM... this one actually has a
> turnable switch:
>   https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3405576046368707/
>
>
> MC-10
> -----
> 1) James Host posted a ZIP file onto the MC-10 Facebook group that contains all
> the remaining programs from the 20 programs book that Jim Gerrie had ported a
> couple of recently:
>   https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/5843856145741159/
>
>
> Dragon 32/64
> ------------
> 1) Perry Andrews put up a picture of his Dragon replacement PSU that he got
> from John Whitworth of Dragonplus Electronics that has been assembling:
>   https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3407994356126876/
> He also took a photo of a display at the Science Museum in London - which
> includes both a TRS-80 Model 1 and a Dragon 32 amongst a dozen more computers:
>
> https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=6112564385472132&set=gm.3406309916295320&idorvanity=1602723113320685
>
> 2) Matt Kaye posted about some removable blister packs with a card back that
> his making, so that you can have a proper display for old cassette games with
> brand new (but basically period correct) packaging, with full color covers. The
> same he shows has Eddie Steady Go, Back Track & Cash Man:
>   https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3407113886214923/
>
> 3) French YouTube page "Chti'geek un jour! Chti'geek toujours!" (roughly
> translates to "Geek one day! Geek always!" I think) put up a brief video
> introducing the Dragon 32 he received:
>   https://youtu.be/RDUC9pjteuk
>
> 4) This is actually old (from March of 2020), but it's author recently joined
> our Discord. It's a 3D graphics engine demo on a Dragon 32 where the program
> only takes 1K, written by a demo scene coder who normally works with Atari 8
> bit and other retro machines. It was supposed to be released at the "Forever"
> demo party in Slovakia, but that event was cancelled due to Covid:
> Post about it from back in 2020:
>   https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85003
> Brief video demo:
>   https://youtu.be/sviuSkciHAw
>
>
> Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
> ==========================================
> 1) Jim Gerrie has been working on Erico's Monteiro's low res zombie game (that
> we covered a few weeks ago) to the MC-10. For extra speed, he is using Greg
> Dionne's MCBASIC compiler on it as well:
>   https://youtu.be/IWZaj3_7qG8
> He also entered in "Fall" that originally appeared in a programming book for
> the French Alice computer (clone of the MC-10):
>   https://youtu.be/uf_XMYuivIY
> He also ported "La Raquette" from the Alice:
>   https://youtu.be/ZLdsLQ8YWN0
> He then expanded La Raquette, making it into more of a Popcorn style game and
> compiling it with Greg Dionne's MC-10 BASIC compiler (Jim mentions that it is
> actually closer to a Vic20 game called Diamond Drop at this point). It features
> skill levels 1-3 (which is how many pieces can fall at onces), and is now
> compatible with the joypad device he has been using recently:
>   https://youtu.be/4eHpC9eu7uw
>
> 2) Paul Shoemaker posted a video of game side project that he is working on to
> the Facebook Coco group; a platform game using the 32x16 text screen, inspired
> by a CP/M game called "Ladder":
>   https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160503449702641/
>
> 3) Episode 41 of The Coco Show From Aaron & Boat is out on YouTube - covering
> the Spectral Associates game Module Man:
>   https://youtu.be/BrSGZ2zMFaw
>
> 4) PlayGames on YouTube seems to have finished their 30-40 second gameplay
> video clips for the Dragon 32/64 - 400 in all:
>   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp7z5j6N5lhwyHnw_wqeAt_GZgMXqTnvI
>
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